Manipulating Theophany : : Light and Ritual in North Adriatic Architecture (ca. 400–ca. 800) / / Vladimir Ivanovici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Ivanovici, Vladimir ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 261 p.)

Using light as fil rouge reuniting theology and ritual with the architecture, decoration, and iconography of cultic spaces, the present study argues that the mise-en-scène of fifth-century baptism and sixth-century episcopal liturgy was meant to reproduce the luminous atmosphere of heaven. Analysing the material culture of the two sacraments against common ritual expectations and Christian theology, we evince the mannerin which the luminous effect was reached through a combination of constructive techniques and perceptual manipulation. One nocturnal and one diurnal, the two ceremonials represented different scenarios, testifying to the capacity of church builders and willingness of Late Antique bishops to stage the ritual experience in order to offer God to the senses.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Paulinus of Nola and the New Visual Rhetoric of Sanctity -- I. Light in Late Antique Baptismal Theory and Practice -- II. Light in the Context of the Eucharistic Liturgy -- III. Conclusion -- IV. Excursus: The Tempietto Longobardo in Cividale -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places